The book of the fair; an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 (1893)
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago, San Francisco, The Bancroft Co. · leaf 12
THE BOOK OF THE FAIR a profile of Columbus, with decorative scrolls and letters, traced in incandescent lamps against a background of terra cotta on the southern wall of the Electricity building. Elsewhere in its 15,000 feet of floor space, and north of the Edison tower, is a darkened room for the… … of bare copper wire. A MAMMOTH DYNAMO In its southern section the company has a collection of street railroad apparatus, with two powerful multipolar generators, one driven by a compound engine, and the other by a belt, with cars equipped with motors of the single reduction type, beneath which are…
